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View Poll Results: Is the current execution of Edo Tensei doing Justice to the previous buildup for the Jutsu?

Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

Sorry if this is a pointless discussion, but I always wondered why he developed such a frightning technique.
To augment the fighting power of Konoha? To talk with dead people about different matters? To do things that we still don't know?
I just can't figure it out....

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

To complete missions without endangering living Shinobi's life.
As wicked as it may sound, he developed it for the village, and then, for some reason, he labeled it as Kinjutsu, possibly coming to know how evil this could be when used against your own.

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

Your explanation is plausible, but if it's so, why didn't he used it during the wars?
He could have avoided pointless deaths as you said....
I don't know how to explain it, but I think that there is more to this techinque than we think.

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

Originally Posted by Hakuteiken

To complete missions without endangering living Shinobi's life.
As wicked as it may sound, he developed it for the village, and then, for some reason, he labeled it as Kinjutsu, possibly coming to know how evil this could be when used against your own.

well, actually it requires a living sacrifice to use it...

and it's like in the real world if he hadn't created it, some other ninja would had...(imo)

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

Originally Posted by Rarhyx

I thought so too.
But maybe in the beginning of the jutsu he may have sacrificed konoha's men, we don't know

Possible, but unlikely, since the purpose is to keep the life of the Konoha Shinobi safe or so it seems.
Considering his control and the summons' power was far from what it is today, that wouldn't be a good idea overall, even if he was cold-hearted enough to kill his own subordinates.

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

Originally Posted by Hakuteiken

Possible, but unlikely, since the purpose is to keep the life of the Konoha Shinobi safe or so it seems.
Considering his control and the summons' power was far from what it is today, that wouldn't be a good idea overall, even if he was cold-hearted enough to kill his own subordinates.

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

True
But those guys were also fighting on his side, so, why trade a living strong Shinobi for a weakened puppet?

On his side? How sure are you anyway that the ET was created after the truce of uchiha and senju?

Maybe t'was created before the truce when the uchiha and senju are in war. And judging from tobirama's hate to uchiha, then it's not impossible that he can abduct an uchiha and make that as a vessel. Or maybe his first ET was an uchiha. Tobirama seems a man who value the life of an innocent ninja/people. But he's a man who hate and disgusted an uchiha , so maybe all of his experiment from ET are all uchiha's.

Re: Why Did Tobirama develop the Edo Tensei?

They could be using injured enemies for that purpose, that much I don't know, to be honest.

Originally Posted by Rarhyx

I thought so too.
But maybe in the beginning of the jutsu he may have sacrificed konoha's men, we don't know

Originally Posted by Hakuteiken

Possible, but unlikely, since the purpose is to keep the life of the Konoha Shinobi safe or so it seems.
Considering his control and the summons' power was far from what it is today, that wouldn't be a good idea overall, even if he was cold-hearted enough to kill his own subordinates.

In other words, I'm not sure if that was before the truce and the Uchiha were still his enemies. I only considered it from a standpoint where Konoha's benefits would be taken into account first, so, we were discussing whether he could go that far to sacrifice his own villagers, which I don't find plausible.